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The best soundbite came from the leader of the SNP who declared Mrs May’s soft Brexit Chequers plan as “dead as a dodo”, but even its most vocal critics on the Tory benches could barely muster a cheer.

As the Cabinet and government frontbench sat glumly, acutely aware that this is as good as it will get for the next few months, Labour MPs sat scrolling Twitter on their phones.

Welcome back to Westminster, it did not take long to forget that long hot summer!